X-Forces collide in Marvel’s Vendetta

Some of the biggest characters in the X-Universe are on a collision course in Vendetta, a new crossover event coming to Uncanny X-Force and Cable and X-Force.

For years, the mutant Bishop relentlessly chased Cable and his adopted daughter Hope Summers through time and space on a mission to wipe her out of existence. Though they narrowly escaped with their lives, the scars still remain. Now, the man who has haunted Hope’s dreams has returned to the present – and he’s working with their fellow X-Men?!

Hope is out for blood, and nobody is going to stand in her way, even if she has to take down all of Uncanny X-Force to get it! But as Hope exacts her revenge, a much greater threat closes in from the shadows – and one of the X-Men’s deadliest villains returns!

Cable, X-Force and Bishop are some of my absolute favorite Marvel characters, but it’s the potential return of that guy to the right that really has me jazzed about Vendetta.

If you don’t know who Stryfe is, and I wouldn’t fault you if you didn’t since he last appeared in 2009’s Messiah War and really made a name for himself in the X-Cutioner’s Song event back in the ’90s. He’s essentially a clone of Cable who’s from the distant future. Oh, and he’s a very, very bad man.

“When I took the reins on CABLE & X-FORCE and UNCANNY X-FORCE, I knew a crossover of the two books would be inevitable,” says series editor Daniel Ketchum. “I’m so excited about the story Dennis and Sam have cooked up…it delivers EXACTLY what I’d want to read in an X-Force event!”

Yeah, you can say that again